India has mandated that all smartphone makers pre-install a government security app called Sanchar Saathi. Apple is reportedly refusing to comply, setting up a potential clash over privacy and state control.
In a stunning move, Apple has hired Amar Subramanya as its new Vice President of AI. He just joined Microsoft from Google four months ago. This comes as Apple’s current AI chief, John Giannandrea, announces his retirement for spring 2026.
According to new research, companies are increasingly bringing back “boomerang” employees shortly after laying them off. This trend, highlighted during the pandemic and now amid AI uncertainty, reveals deep flaws in corporate workforce planning. It’s a costly cycle of poor management decisions.
In a major shift, AWS and Google Cloud have partnered on a managed networking solution to connect their clouds in minutes, not months. They plan to launch a similar link with Microsoft Azure in 2026. This comes amid outages and EU antitrust scrutiny of the cloud giants.
A new MIT study called “Project Iceberg” uses a massive supercomputer simulation to map AI’s impact on the US labor force. It finds current AI can handle tasks for 11.7% of workers, representing $1.2 trillion in wages, with effects spread far beyond the tech sector.
The Russian-speaking Tomiris group is launching a new campaign against foreign ministries and governments. They’re now hiding their traffic in Discord and Telegram and using malware written in many programming languages.
At SC25, Avicena announced its LightBundle optical links now operate at 4Gbps per lane with transmitter currents as low as 100µA per LED. This enables a raw link energy of just 80 femtojoules per bit, a milestone for low-power chip-to-chip interconnects in massive AI clusters.
The wave of AI-driven layoffs is no longer theoretical. Major companies are explicitly linking job cuts to artificial intelligence adoption, with certain roles in the crosshairs. The trend signals a painful, accelerated shift in the white-collar workforce.
Belgium has launched a new national supercomputer named Sofia at the Green Energy Park in Zellik. The Vrije Universiteit Brussels will manage the €8.6 million Tier-1 system for the next six years, providing compute power for Flemish universities and companies.
The public feud between chipmaker Nexperia and its parent company Wingtech has escalated with new accusations of secret supply chain plans. At the heart of the conflict is a $300 million expansion in Malaysia and a goal to source 90% of production outside China by mid-2026. This corporate battle has
